00:00But we begin with this morning's top story, London's Heathrow Airport is now fully operational after a power outage crippled one of the world's busiest airports.
00:09A fire at an electrical substation cut power to the airport for most of yesterday and caused widespread chaos and cancellations.
00:18More than 1,300 flights to and from Heathrow were affected and it disrupted travel for more than 200,000 passengers.
00:26Lea Connery is at Heathrow. Lea, good morning.
00:31Good morning. Well, as you may be able to see behind me, planes are now up and running again at London's biggest airport.
00:37So travelers who are stuck around the world can travel through here again the day after an unprecedented shutdown.
00:45Europe's busiest tarmacs are back in business.
00:49Planes are getting higher.
00:50After this spectacular fire at an electrical substation nearby Thursday night caused a power cut to Heathrow Airport and over 16,000 homes in the area.
00:59The transport hub shut down for over 16 hours. The ripple effect immediate and global.
01:06Over 1,300 flights disrupted, dozens already in the air, flying up to 290,000 passengers.
01:13Andrew McGaskill was on his way to London.
01:16We awoke to a picture on our phone of the plane doing a U-turn.
01:21At this point, we were four and a half hours in flight, so right over the top of the Atlantic.
01:26A group of Americans in Italy among those grounded and confused.
01:31One of our parties said that we wouldn't get out until the 24th, which is a long time, you know.
01:39Roughly a million Americans travel through Heathrow each month.
01:42Justin McLean took off from Boston.
01:44The pilot came on and said that some of us may have noticed the plane was turning around.
01:49And not to be alarmed, but the London Heathrow was closed due to a fire.
01:55Pressure mounted on airlines and the airport to take care of passengers.
01:59Heathrow's chief executive saying this was unprecedented.
02:03Short of anybody getting hurt, this is as big as it gets for our airport.
02:09And we are actually coming back quite fast, I would say,
02:11when you consider the amount of systems that we have to shut down,
02:14then bring back up and make sure that they're safe.
02:17It's fueling systems, it's bridges, it's escalators, elevators.
02:22Now, travelers and officials are calling for an investigation into the fire.
02:26Police are saying at this early stage there is no indication of foul play.
02:31But because of the huge impact this has had on national infrastructure,
02:34the counter-terrorism police are leading the investigation.
02:37Michelle?
02:38Lee, thank you.
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